Frank Xu
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"Our daily life relies on information technology more than ever before. We use cell phones to communicate with people, email for working, and the 'internet of things' to build a smart home. The rise of IT has introduced a completely new type of crime: high-tech crime.
"Our M.S. in Cyber Forensics is designed to help students to learn how to reconstruct a digital crime scene by acquiring, preserving and analyzing evidence in digital devices. The uniqueness of our program is that our program emphasizes hands-on labs and utilizes various commercial and open-source forensic tools to investigate digital crimes."
Frank Xu is a professor for the School of Criminal Justice in the University of Baltimore's College of Public Affairs. He is also the director of the M.S. in Cyber Forensics program.
His areas of expertise include software security, mining software engineering data and applied formal methods. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conference proceedings, including prestigious venues such as IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing and IEEE Transactions on Reliability. He received more than $1.5 million in research grants from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy and General Electric.